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Alan Lomax collected material first with his father, folklorist and collector John Lomax, and later, alone and with others.
Notable Deaths on July 19
2002 — Alan Lomax
American historian, scholar, and activist (born 1915)
July 19 has 117 recorded notable deaths across history, from 514 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
117 source records
514 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on July 19
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. Source
- 1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. Source
- 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. Source
- 1848 Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. Source
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A leading figure in Egypt's intelligence system beginning in 1986, Suleiman was appointed to the long-vacant vice presidency by President Hosni Mubarak on 29 January 2011.
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Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations, first published in 1948, went through five editions during his lifetime and was widely adopted as a textbook in U.
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In 1995, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bank fraud in relation to his daughter Heidi's prostitution ring.
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Dave Carter was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, who were heralded as the new "voice of modern folk music" in the months before Carter's unexpected death in July 2002.
More major people who died on July 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2012
Omar Suleiman
Egyptian general and politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (born 1935)
Omar Mahmoud Suleiman was an Egyptian army general, politician, diplomat, and intelligence officer.
1980
Hans Morgenthau
German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (born 1904)
Hans Joachim Morgenthau was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations.
2014
Paul M. Fleiss
American pediatrician and author (born 1933)
Paul Murray Fleiss was an American pediatrician and author known for his unconventional medical views.
2002
Dave Carter
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
Dave Carter was an American folk music singer-songwriter who described his style as "post-modern mythic American folk music".
2004
J. Gordon Edwards
American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (born 1919)
J. Gordon Edwards was an American entomologist and proponent of the use and safety of the pesticide DDT.
2014
John Winkin
American baseball player, coach, and journalist (born 1919)
John W. Winkin Jr. was an American baseball coach, scout, broadcaster, journalist and collegiate athletics administrator.
1939
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
American poet and author (born 1850)
Rose Hartwick Thorpe was an American poet and writer, remembered largely for the narrative poem, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight (1867), which gained national popularity and circulated abroad in a number of translations.
1975
John Alan Coey
American mercenary and medic in the Rhodesian Bush War
John Alan Coey was a U.S. Marine who served in the Rhodesian Army as one of the "Crippled Eagles", a loosely organised group of U.S.
2015
Carmino Ravosa
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1930)
Carmino Ravosa was an American composer and lyricist, singer, pianist, as well as a producer, director, and musical historian.
2007
Roberto Fontanarrosa
Argentinian cartoonist (born 1944)
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, popularly known as El Negro Fontanarrosa, was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer.
2015
Galina Prozumenshchikova
Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (born 1948)
Galina Nikolayevna Prozumenshchikova was a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who also competed in medley relays. She won five Olympic medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972 and five European Championships medals in 1966 and 1970.
1857
Stefano Franscini
Swiss statistician and politician (born 1796)
Stefano Franscini was a Swiss politician and statistician. He was one of the initial members of the Swiss Federal Council elected in 1848 and Switzerland's first native Italian speaking federal councillor.
1249
Jacopo Tiepolo
doge of Venice
Jacopo Tiepolo, also known as Giacomo Tiepolo, was Doge of Venice from 1229 to 1249.
1965
Syngman Rhee
South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (born 1875)
Syngman Rhee, also known by his art name Unam, was a Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.
1631
Cesare Cremonini
Italian philosopher and academic (born 1550)
Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino, was an Italian academic and professor of natural philosophy. His Latinized name was Cæsar Cremoninus or Cæsar Cremonius.
1838
Pierre Louis Dulong
French physicist and chemist (born 1785)
Pierre Louis Dulong FRS FRSE was a French physicist and chemist.
1992
Paolo Borsellino
Italian lawyer and judge (born 1940)
Paolo Emanuele Borsellino was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate.
2010
Jon Cleary
Australian author and playwright (born 1917)
Jon Stephen Cleary was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including The Sundowners (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and The High…
1415
Philippa of Lancaster
Portuguese queen (born 1360)
Philippa of Lancaster was Queen of Portugal from 1387 until 1415 as the wife of King John I. Born into the royal family of England, she was the daughter of John of Gaunt and granddaughter of Edward III of England.